WATCH: The Excitement About The New Crypto Economy

The Excitement and Uncertainty for the New Crypto Economy

It's more than just Bitcoin. Some say we are witnessing the dawn of a new financial Internet.

Understanding both the opportunities and the pitfalls is a key issue for people exploring the new crypto era.

A new technology called blockchain is enabling the new financial Internet. In addition to being utilized on a worldwide basis, blockchain will also be used within companies ("enterprise applications") and within selected industries (world financial organizations, supply chains, energy, and others).

New crypto applications are being built on blockchain - including cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and a thousand other digital currencies. Although there was a dark past of crypto involving the dark web, drugs, silk road, and even anarchist-like movements - the power of a new financial Internet may have profound business and social benefits. From Africa to Venezuela people are discussing how a new Internet based financial system could bring banking mechanisms to any consumer with a smart phone. At the same time, an explosion of worldwide cryptocurrencies has caused China and other countries to shut down, or considering shutting down new ICOs and related digital currency exchanges.

ICOs or Initial Coin Offerings are being powered by a range of new "distributed" applications involving blockchain and smart contracts. One decentralized application from Ethereum provides "erc20" to enable a way for people around the world to help financially support emerging companies through ICOs. An explosion in the summer of 2017 of new ICOs raised more money than U.S. Venture Capital firms. But this explosion resulted in government concerns about an ICO gold rush, and accordingly, regulators reviewed or implemented regulatory measures especially for ICOs that may involve equity. Overall, governments cautioned that ICO investors need to more carefully understand ICO offerings, documents and potential ICO pitfalls.

Bottom line: The crypto era and the new financial Internet are exciting times for both social impact and investment opportunities. But as we enter the gold rush area of ICOs, sentiments are being expressed that 80-90% of ICOs could be useless or scams – so investors need to focus even more carefully to find the investor opportunities that are appropriate from a risk and reward point of view.

ICO Investor.tv is here to help you better understand this fast-moving era of ICOs and a new financial Internet – from understanding regulated and unregulated ICOs to being aware of ICO pitfalls.

Global Regulatory Review

The growing number of Initial Coin Offerings has resulted in government concerns about an ICO gold rush, and accordingly, regulators are reviewing or implementing regulatory measures especially for ICOs that may be involve equity. The Global Regulatory Review shows the chronology of ICO regulations from countries around the globe.

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